Islami Andolon to skip talks

Terming the ongoing dialogue on the reconstitution of the Election Commission meaningless, ameer of Islami Andolon Bangladeh Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim, also pir of Charmonai, on Saturday said they will not take part in talks with the president.

“We took part in talks with President Abdul Hamid in 2012 and 2017 from a sense of civic responsibility but the fact is that the two national elections held under two commissions extremely frustrated us,” he said.

“The most frustrating thing is that the President neither brought the EC under accountability nor took any punitive action against the commission for holding disgraceful elections. So, we consider the dialogue with the President as meaningless,” he added.